There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance […]
Ignorance - Ignorant Quotes
Ignoramus, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
The trouble ain’t that people are ignorant: it’s that they know so much that ain’t so.
It iz better tew know nothing than tew know what ain’t so.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
